zephyr24069
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| Krell CAST cables...which to buy? A friend of mine uses CAST cables he had made by Tara. The difference is impressive and noticeable. You may not have to go all the way up to "The One" to achieve the improvement you seek. Did Tara quote you $3000/meter for a single CAST cable? Tha... | |
| spakers for various genres If your musical tastes include rock, metal and other types I'd suggest you give the Legacy Focus HDs a run. These speakers handle the gamut of music from classical, jazz all the way up to rock, metal, and many other types extremely well as an exce... | |
| Esoteric P-03/D-03 or Metronome I agree with Dev's assessment of Esoteric build quality. The P/D series are built with outstanding quality. Esoteric customer service is also first rate...I've owned several Esoteric units all the way up to my current P-03 and D-03 and found the w... | |
| Esoteric P-03/D-03 or Metronome The only person I know of that has owned transport/DAC from Esoteric and anything from Metronome is on Audiogon as Audioezra. If memory serves, he's owned the P-01/D-01 and the Kalista Reference, is a great guy to talk to and loves this hobby. | |
| Pink Floyd 16 CD Brick Set-Quality?? I have owned this since it came out and have found the mini-LP style packaging and the sound quality to be very good. I have many different versions (MFSL, other remastered CDs from various sources, various SACDs) of several Pink Floyd disks and f... | |
| Lexicon MC12B VS Mark Levinson NO.40 I don't know the answer...all I can say is last time I heard them (about 1 1/2 years ago, sufficiently after the M&A activity), they had very different sounds and attributes). | |
| Lexicon MC12B VS Mark Levinson NO.40 I've sold off my HT components and went back to 2-channel however over a few years I demo'ed alot of high-end SSPs including the 2 you are considering. If your list is constrained to these two, from listening & viewing them, I'd suggest the Le... | |
| System Trouble shooting If your MacBook is working with headphones (from a separate output of mini-DIN/similar type I am guessing) that means your sound card is probably doing fine. You may have a problem for USB output only. There is one other simple potential explanati... | |
| esoteric P03 or P05 to ML40 I can answer your question and am an owner of several generations of Esoteric gear including a P-03U, D-03and G-0s trio. The answer is a bit long and involved;write me an email and shoot me a phone number. I'll beglad to give you a call and explai... | |
| SS or Tube Preamps with Dual-Balanced outputs Thanks Dob! | |
| My Esoteric P-05 '' eat '' my new Beatles disc I had an issue with an Esoteric P-03U in that the ground terminals had become loose and would not tighten down. I called Esoteric Technical Support who walked me through the process of taking of the top and properly fixing the lock washer and grou... | |
| SS or Tube Preamps with Dual-Balanced outputs Thanks for your response and sorry for the delay in responding. I've not been on A-gon due to work in quite a few days; it's great to hear from you! | |
| Best speaker cable for Genesis speakers The Tara cables do not have active shielding of any kind. With the The One and 0.8 I'm sure you'll be very happy with the mids and top-end. They also have bass that is extremely impressive. Another very noticeable difference I found is that they p... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC 1-UP pre-amp Thank you both for your comments and observations! | |
| Audience Power Chord or SR Master Coupler? I cannot speak to the SR Master Coupler but I can tell you that I've tried alot of power cords and have been very happy over the past few months with both 15-amp and 20-amp versions of the new Audience PowerChord "E" versions. There is something a... |